Excessively rare work on amber, its origin and use in medicine. The author claims amber to be "not vegetable resin, but some sort of petroleum residue [mountain wax]". The book also makes "reference to insects in amber, and is therefore one of the earliest works mentioning them."--Gemology, J. Sinkankas, vol. 2, p. 43.
Topics: Amber--Early works to 1800, Medicine--15th-18th centuries
"The original volume ... from which they are selected, is said to have been compiled by Dr. John Aurifaber, or Goldschmidt, from a vast collection of Luther's sayings, made by Dr. Antony Lauterbach ... translated into English by Captain Henry Bell."--Pref., p. [iii]
Topics: hath, luther, christ, god, holy, thy, touching, pope, passages relating, holy ghost, god hath, lord...
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